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Forget open beaches and seaside resorts. Go to Pripyat,a city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Part city exploration experience,part real-life video game,the tour is now being provided by several Ukrainian travel companies.

On the day of the tour,curious visitors of all ages and countries—many from the US and Western Europe—gathered in the Ukrainian capital city,Kiev,and boarded a tour bus destined for Pripyat. This used to be a successful blue-collar town until the nuclear meltdown. Today,well-maintained freeways fall away to two-way highways,which finally give way to beaten old roads as one nears the edge of the Exclusion Zone —the 30km radius around the infamous power plant.

After a brief direction which tour guides insisted that the levels of radiation experienced by visitors are similar to the exposure they had on the flight to Ukraine—we were driven beyond the checkpoint into the Exclusion Zone.

Pripyat was founded as a city for the power plant's workers. Nowadays,its once busy streets have been changed into narrow gravelly trails between breakdown buildings,and small decorative trees that at one time lined the sidewalks have returned the area to the forest it was in days past.

The tour continued inside some of the buildings. This hotel room would once have been warm and cozy,but not any more. You can see a tree growing in the room. There was a huge amount of old paint,broken windows,and wood. As Pripyat people were told it would only be a short-term evacuation,most of their personal belongings were left behind. We carefully stepped around the ruined objects littering the floor and had the unique experience of seeing a building frozen in time for over 25 years.

Part of the tour took place in the old school. And although this is definitely one of the most disturbing parts—the rows of desks covered in dust that scatter the floor are frightening,it is also one of the sites that has been the most disturbed by visitors.

51. According to the passage,Pripyat was a city .

   A. where visitors came to enjoy its beauty

   B. where most people worked at factories

   C. where the whole town was powered by nuclear

   D. where freeways fell down on the highways

52. We can infer from the third paragraph that .

   A. radiation can spread throughout tfie whole Ukraine

   B. tour guides force travelers into the Exclusion Zone

   C. the radiation near the Zone does no harm to visitors

   D. visitors are asked to travel by plane to the Zone

53. The fourth paragraph is mainly about .

   A. the deep forest in Pripyat

   B. the ruins of the power plant

   C. the narrow streets in Pripyat

   D. the surroundings of Pripyat

54. The fifth paragraph implies that people thought.

   A. they could return to their home soon

   B. they could defeat nature in 25 years

   C. they could experience the feeling of time-frozen.

   D. they didn't need their personal belongings 

55. What kind of tourism is the passage about?

   A. Business tourism.

   B. Disaster tourism.

   C. Adventurous tourism.

   D. Eco-friendly tourism

Answer 1

51. B解析：细节理解题。根据第二段第二句可知，这里原来是一个蓝领工人们聚集 的地方。

52. C解析：推理判断题。在第三段中导游 告诉游客们，这里的辐射就等同于他们坐 飞机来乌克兰一样，说明了辐射危害小。

53. D解析:段落大意题。根据第四段的内 容可知，本段主要描写了这个地方现在的 环境。

54. A解析:推理判断题。根据倒数第二段 的第五句可知，人们当时被告知不用带太 多的东西，即他们以为很快就可以回来。

55. B解析：推理判断题。本文主要介绍在 切尔诺贝利核电厂事故发生地进行的旅游 活动，因此属于灾难性旅游项目。